Movie Library: Please fix removal of unused Content Ratings

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Server Version#: 1.24.1.4931
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With TV Libraries, if a Content Rating isn’t used anymore e.g. if there are no more movies rated gb/12, then it is removed. This doesn’t happen with Movie Libraries. Can this be added to a future release please.

I like to keep my content ratings tidy e.g. fixing the Nones, changing R–>gb/18, PG–>gb/PG, TV-14–>gb/15 etc etc so that they all follow the UK standard. However, once a rating isn’t in use it is still there, unlike TV.

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Have you checked your Collections? These can also have content ratings.

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Thanks for replying so quickly. Are you saying I can’t get rid of defunct ratings like gb/AA in my Movie ‘Library’ because I have a collection somewhere that is using gb/AA?

If so, how do I fix as I can’t see a way to sort or filter collections by Content Rating?

Thanks

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Not somewhere. In that particular library.

Indeed, unfortunately the only way is to inspect each collection individually.

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I tried advanced filter collection is not All Stars (picked at random) + Content Rating is gb/AA and nothing came up, so I don’t think the Collections are driving the non-removal of ratings in the Movie Library.

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Do you remember one of the titles which you removed? Was it a member of a collection? Open this collection.

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Thanks. I’ve opened a few collections and I’ve found ratings I don’t use e.g. “At the Top Collection” is gb/X which I’ve changed in the movie library to gb/18.

I guess my request then is, can we get some filter options for Collections please so they can be edited, rather than a long list.

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Solved: I selected all my collections and changed the rating to “Collection”. I’ll just keep doing this if I see a non-used rating pop up. Not a pretty solution, but it works.

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can i ask a related question here, without starting a new post.

I got in this situation of having to fix all my Content Ratings again because my database got corrupted, and I’d messed up my backups.

Can I check please if backing up my database is enough to keep all my manual metadata changes e.g. changing ratings and artwork, or do I need to backup my metadata and media to do this?

Thanks

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As long as you didn’t change the path to the media files between backup and restore, this should be sufficient, yes.

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does that apply for poster changes? I tend to choose cleaner posters other than the ones that Plex tends to default to that have lots of writing on

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Poster selections are stored as symbolic links.
If your copy process doesn’t destroy these, poster selections should be retained.

(Copying to a zip archive destroys symlinks, but copying to tar does not.)

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Thanks. My database backups are working well now and it’s good to know they are sufficient for a restore if things go bad in the future.

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These symlinks are not stored in the database file. They are stored in the Plex data folder.

So if you want a full backup, you need to copy the whole folder.

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are content changes kept in the database e.g. content ratings? Or are they in the meta?

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The main, text-based ones, yes.
Some “procedural” ones, like thumbnails, loudness and sonic analysis etc are stored elsewhere.

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